The city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a city of 350 K, is experiencing wid chills of -50C this morning.

From my home town. A small community perhaps, but they have widespread support amongst all Victorians: Iranian-Canadians to rally at legislature as protests and crackdown intensify back home If you’re near the legislature this afternoon, that sound you’ll no doubt hear is one calling for action on this side of the planet as horrors unfold back home. It’s the third straight weekend of peaceful rallies calling for urgent international attention on the escalating crisis in Iran. “Executions have begun. Families are being destroyed. Widows are appearing overnight,” said Nahid Safari, one of the event’s organizers, in a release. While Canadians were celebrating Christmas, Iranians hit the streets to protest an economic collapse that has seen their dollar, the rial, sink to a record low while inflation hit an all-time high. US-led sanctions against the country over its nuclear program and government corruption added to the anger. Protests started with students and shopkeepers and have since reportedly spread to 187 centres in all 31 of Iran’s provinces, according to the BBC. Then came the crackdown. “The scale and speed of the violence are staggering,” Safari says. It’s difficult to get a handle on the number of people who have been arrested—or killed—because the Iranian government has shut down Internet access. According to Amnesty International, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council issued a release earlier this week that said 3,117 people were killed during the uprising, although a United Nations report suggested that number was closer to 5K.

To push back against ongoing red–green disinformation that erases Iran’s stolen future, I’m sharing a brief report that documents how Iran’s genuine path to tolerant modernity was not rejected by its people—but deliberately destroyed. Murdered Modernity examines the Shah’s reform project as a serious, institutional attempt to reconcile faith with reason, law with dignity, and tradition with modern life—and how that effort was annihilated by a Red–Black convergence that preferred collapse over continuity. What followed was not liberation, but the permanent closing of the space in which pluralism, women’s equality, civil law, and rational governance could survive. The contemporary attempt to smear this history—or to claim that “all systems were equally oppressive”—does not defend human rights. It launders the civilizational crime that produced forty-seven years of clerical absolutism, mass repression, and enforced orthodoxy. This report exists to restore historical clarity, protect today’s protestors from narrative sabotage, and remind the diaspora that Iran’s descent was not inevitable—and need not be repeated. Reach out if you have any questions. Jeffrey Damien Cappella PresidentSoldiers to Statesmen Foundation

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